“Sometimes in that desire to get to Hollywood, you lose today”

Prolific singer Carlos Vives ventured to deepen his role as an actor in “El Club de Los Graves,” a Disney+ series that premiered Wednesday and was filmed in Colombia, where he was born and made his career, preferring to stay in his country have ambitions to go to the United States.

“Sometimes in that desire to get to Hollywood today you lose,” he said this Thursday in Mexico.

The production was filmed in several locations Colombia, including Bogotá, something Vives appreciated.

“The recording it was very exciting. IN Bogota, where I have lived since I was 11 years old. It was that I could shoot near my house, take my bike and go to the set,” he said excitedly at a press conference.

This, he says, reminded him once again why he decided to continue his career in Colombiathe place that gave him vallenatos, his musical essence and the possibility to be close to his family.

And it is precisely preserving the essence that he advises young people who are trying to make a name for themselves in the world music, music Or performance.

“Let them look for their own identity. We all want to be famous, stars Disney. But how real is it? When you discover that you’re going to make a living from it, if that’s what you’re looking for, you have to find your own space, your own identity. AND knowledgeyou have to study, you have to cultivate, you have to read,” said the 61-year-old artist.

And with this idea, he came to work with the children who appear in seriesfrom whom, as he admitted, he learned a lot.

The production focuses on the arrival of a Music teacher methods that disrupt the traditional high school. He is a teacher Amaranth Molinaplayed by Vives, who arrives at a school specializing in music education.

Every year, the director of the institute chooses five students — nicknamed Los Agudos — to integrate the prestigious A teenage band from the school, and Molina was assigned as a teacher to Los Graves, a group of students who were left out of the selection.

Together with Los Graves, Molina will embark on a musical journey in which i the youth like him, they will learn and find a common path.

In addition to learning, Vives was also proud to be able to participate in a Disney project, whose company he is productions I saw from a young age. He reported that he had turntable in which they listened to Disney movies, although they did not see the picture.

“We didn’t see Disney’s stories, we heard them, we grew up in that imaginary, in what Disney provoked us: sing, dance, create, imagine. As an actor and as a singer, to be able to be in a Disney story is a huge thank you,” he said.

Likewise, he appreciated very positively that they gave him the opportunity to create songs for moviesomething that was very different from his creative process when creating his own disks.

Finally, he explained that it was “impressive” to see his daughter Elena, who plays Amalia, take part in “The Graves Club“.

“I wasn’t worried, and then I started to worry like a dad. She’s small and she’s going to get into it all. Seeing her with that effort and her discipline It was very impressive,” he finished.